@aaranged It's schema.org today, but ???? tomorrow! • Aaron Parecki

Aaron Bradley http://www.seoskeptic.com/ • Mar 23
I appreciate the road that microformats paved, but it's 2017, and I should be using prescribed class declarations ... because?

@aaranged It's schema.org today, but ???? tomorrow!

Portland, Oregon, USA

Thu, Mar 23, 2017 8:15am -07:00

13 replies
Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Kevin Marks www.kevinmarks.com
  
  that is what was said about xml too. HTML persists. See microformats.org/wiki/dry
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 5:10pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  ... and all Google needs to do is "update their microformats parser"?
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 4:33pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  Oh, so there's a microformat that satisfies, say, Google's requirements to generate a sitelinks search box...
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 4:32pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Kevin Marks www.kevinmarks.com
  
  what we did with microformats was tighten up on the criteria for standardisation to multiple publishers and consumers.
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 4:28pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Kevin Marks www.kevinmarks.com
  
  that they haven't updated their microformats parsers is not microformats not being expressive.
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 4:26pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  That they are "extensible by anyone" is a moot point for webmasters who want to generate these features and their benefits.
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 4:20pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Kevin Marks www.kevinmarks.com
  
  saying microformats are not expressive enough is a deep misunderstanding. Read kevinmarks.com/microformatsch… #indieweb
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 3:51pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  Having said all this, your work on Micropub - of which I wasn't aware - looks very interesting. Thanks for sharing - will explore.
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 3:25pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  But bottom line is that microformats are simply not expressive enough anymore to satisfy the search engines' s. data requirements.
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 3:23pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  ... blog post that development would now only be undertaken on the mf IRC channel. I mean ... words fail me.
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 3:20pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  b) Both the community development and extension mechanisms have been very successful. Remember a while ago reading a mf ...
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 3:20pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  And regarding your table, the chief reasons it has legs is: a) because it is a broadly-supported initiative, NOT just Google, and..
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 3:18pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Bradley www.seoskeptic.com
  
  Tomorrow: #schema.org. Next week: #schema.org. Next year: #schema.org. The vocabulary has legs.
  
  Thu, Mar 23, 2017 3:17pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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